Former OSHRC Chair Sees Precedent Shaping OSHA’s COVID-19 Plans

Former Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) Chairman James Sullivan says the Biden OSHA’s plan to step up enforcement, particularly on COVID-19 worker exposures, poses an “interesting” test for OSHRC and its precedent setting a high bar for the agency to sustain penalties in some enforcement cases. In an exclusive interview with Inside OSHA , James Sullivan, who was an OSHRC member from 2017-21 and served as chairman from July 2019 until the end of the Trump administration, says...